Economics is often used in literary studies, but rarely free market economics. Austrian economics, with its emphasis on subjective value (Menger), human action (Mises), spontaneous order and knowledge (Hayek), and entrepreneurship (Kirzner), seems a particularly fruitful source of ideas for literary studies.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Literature Enriches More Than Just Our Lives
Literature causes people to become richer and happier. This, at least, is the logical conclusion one would make by combining the insights made by Russell Berman (as I describe in my paper) that literature individuates people and the insights consolidated by Robin Hanson that individualism makes people richer and happier.
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